Carrie Graf
Carrie Graf
Carrie Ann Graf AMis an Australian basketball coach. She competed in the WNBL as a player starting during 1983–1989, after which she attended RMIT. Graf has coached teams in the WNBL, WNBA and Australia's national team, and has been honoured for her contribution to basketball coaching...
facing force knew stretched
I think when we had all of our talent, stretched over the year, we are a force. We knew what we were facing this year.
beyond knee referee
Her knee and the referee are getting to her. She's got to get beyond that. She's tough. She will.
both gives great last lauren people saying
Lauren is the MVP. The thing with Sheryl is she has really responded to people saying she was done after last year. She's come back and had a great season, but Lauren gives you more at both ends.
absolutely anytime half handle key pressure smashed starters tough
I think anytime you have one of your key starters out it's going to be tough for you. In the first half we didn't handle the pressure (11 turnovers) well and they absolutely smashed us on the boards.
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I think it was out ability to withstand it by coming up with big rebounds. We made some good decisions at the end and critically some big free throws down the stretch too.
game
Right now our season's about one game and that's Minnesota,
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Maria and Ashley Robinson clogged up the middle, coming up with some huge blocks down the stretch.
execute game
We didn't execute at the end of the game and that was my error.
care
We have to take care of our business,
business care los rely seattle
We have to take care of business at Seattle and rely on Los Angeles.
absence knew schedule start tough
We always knew it was going to be tough with the schedule we had at the start and with the absence of players.
believe great monumental tonight win
We want to give them a great push, ... and we believe the win over L.A. and the win here tonight were monumental in doing that.
great hit last needed open shots six tough
Down the stretch, in the last six minutes, we had some great looks. We just couldn't hit open shots when we needed to and it was tough to come back.
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Our aim was to try to keep our head above water. Unfortunately, our head was under water. But we went blue in the face, we came up for air and we're going OK now. We've learned to swim.